GENERAL NON FICTION

Australian artist Greg Oakley has had a lifelong fascination with birds and bird art, and began photographing birds 20 years ago, progressing from ...

  From the international bestselling author of KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON and THE LOST CITY OF Z, a mesmerising story of shipwreck, mutiny and mur...

From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten classes—here is award-winning writer Simon Wi...

   From Stan Grant, leading journalist and author of the critically acclaimed bestsellers Talking to My Country and Australia Day, comes an extraor...

     Australia's bestselling anxiety and mental health expert, Bev Aisbett, tackles a growing mental health emergency: burnout.Burnout happens when...

This book contains interviews from leaders of higher education in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, US, and the UK. For leaders, staff, students and ...

'Deep work' is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. Coined by author and professor Cal Newport on his popular ...

In this ground-breaking book, Clears reveals exactly how these minuscule changes can grow into such life-altering outcomes. He uncovers a handful o...

A compelling investigative account into one of Australia's most secret security sites and the people who infiltrated it. At the closely guarded and...

An insider's account of surviving one of Australia's worst bushfires, and how we live with fire in a climate-changed world The gripping, deeply mov...

Yuval Noah Harari envisions a near future in which we face a new set of challenges. Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that wil...

Revised and updated with the latest scientific research and updated case studies, the business classic that offers a revealing look at psychopaths ...

Save your organization by building the skills to deal with difficult people We all have to work with people we can't stand to be around. Our challe...

What Universities Actually Do and Why it’s Time for Change The higher education industry might seem like it’s booming, with over 200 million studen...

In Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life Daniel C. Dennett argues that the theory of evolution can demystify the miracles of ...

ILLNESS, MEDICINE AND WHAT MATTERS IN THE END For most of human history, death was a common, ever-present possibility. It didn't matter whether you...

Oliver Sacks died in August 2015 at his home in Greenwich Village, surrounded by his close friends and family. He was 82. He spent his final days d...

The father of evolution imbibed history with his controversial book On the Origin of Species. As a young scientist studying natural history, Charle...

A condensed guide to life from the bestselling author of "The Black Swan", Nassim Nicholas Taleb's "The Bed of Procrustes" is an invaluable collect...